Bill-External-Interal Reality/the projective argument

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Nisargadatta , epston wrote:

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> In a message dated 3/27/2006 12:49:59 AM Pacific Standard Time,

> illusyn writes:

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> > If I feel " annoyed with " someone, then is that about them

> > or about me? It's about me. It is not about them. So what

> > is for me to deal with? It is for me to recognized that my

> > annoyance is *my issue*, and that to deal with it means to

> > see it as such. Really, if all of that transpires in an open,

> > undistorted way, then it simply evaporates. Once the cycle of

> > blaming is broken the circuit can no longer fuel itself.

> >

> > Bill

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> L.E: How does this apply when someone is about to shoot and kill

you? Is

> this situation only about you, and not them. Is the " annoyance

'your issue?' Is

> the bullet moving toward you head, 'your issue?' What you say is

true but is

> only one half of the problem which must include what is outside the

body even

> as it is experienced inside the body. In ordinary life what is

exterior to

> your body has its own life and must be dealt with, related to.

>

> Larry Epston

 

this is called the " projective argument " in philosophy;

if your mind is heavy enough you'll bite it (the bullet?)

and dance at the puppet master's finger.

They'll say " yes but what will you say when you die? "

and you'll answer (because it is a big deal to you)

" when i die i'll probably ...this and that "

but as Jesus said:

" let the dead bury (take care of) the dead "

the projective argument will only project as

much of you that is heavy enough to be projected.

 

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